Cardero Resource Corp. announced that it has filed drill permits with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the State of Arizona in preparation of a 5000 metre drill programme testing the Northeast Anomaly, on the Company's Zonia Copper Oxide property ("Zonia"), located in Yavapai County, Arizona USA. The northern geochemical anomaly is an area of coincident, surface rock molybdenum and copper anomalies, with depressed manganese, covering an area of 2500 by 1000 metres. The northern, wider half will be drill tested as a porphyry copper target. The area is believed to be deeply oxidized. Cardero plans to drill a total of 5,000 metres over the anomaly. The area is covered by both federal BLM and ASTL and requires separate permit applications to the state and federal agencies. Permit applications were filed to the ASTL in March and to the BLM in April.